Poem into Poem is the first book of its kind. In an anthology of verse translations from twenty-two languages (ranging from ancient Hebrew and Greek to modern Chinese), each one has been made by an English or American poet who not only renders the original but also creates what is a living poem in its own right. We find extraordinary encounters - Hardy and Sappho, Hopkins and Horace, Yeats and Ronsard, Scott Fitzgerald and Rimbaud, James Joyce and Gottfried Keller, Ezra Pound and Sophocles. The light of another poem is caught in a live mirror. George Steiner believes that translation is central to the nature of modern poetry; that ours is the most brilliant period of poetic translation and recapture since the Elizabethans. This anthology contains his evidence.